God and Mammon take center stage in two exquisite exhibits at the Morgan Library ... Morgan’s three Gutenberg Bibles is on display, this one showing the printer’s marks and corrections. Charted here, ...
The Morgan Library & Museum is a must-visit destination ... Visitors can also view rare editions of famous literary works, including a Gutenberg Bible, original manuscripts by Jane Austen, and ...
It’s not just a book. Back in the 1450s, when the Bible became the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, Johannes Gutenberg was a man with a plan. The German inventor ...
Harvard has an outstanding Gutenberg Bible among its rare book collection. The Bible here is a part of the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in Widener Library. Unlike Widener's personal library ...
Ironically, perfect surviving copies of the Gutenberg Bible are now so costly and rare that they are kept in some of the world's most vaunted institutions. The Library of Congress has one of the ...
A daring burglar came within inches of successfully stealing Harvard's Gutenberg Bible from its resting place in Widener Library on August 19. He succeeded in foiling the library's alarm system ...
During J.P. Morgan’s time, the financier commissioned a garden to fill the space between his home and library building, but those plans were never realized. Longstaffe-Gowan was tasked with ...
Almost 600 years later, just 49 copies of the Gutenberg Bible are still in existence, and less than half of those are complete copies. One is under lock and key at the Library of Congress in ...
. But the most important part of his invention was actually moveable type. Before Gutenberg, the closest Europe had to printing was the woodblock. The woodblock was a piece of wood with all the ...
They included old letters written by his parents before World War II, a psychological assessment of my father’s mental health ...